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The Law Society, Lawyers for Lawyers in the Netherlands, Fair Trial Watch and Lawyers’ Rights Watch Canada jointly responded to the call from the United Nations’ Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) for submissions regarding human rights in Turkey. Read the joint submission below.

The Law Society wrote to the President of Turkey in relation to a number of cases which have been brought in Turkey over the last year or so against lawyers who are engaged in the representation of individuals whose cases involve human rights principles.

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